Fedora 17 install dualboot with Windows 7 Home Premium goes nowhere

[Daniel Landau]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Ranjan Maitra
<maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 06:52:20 -0400 Jim <binarynut at comcast.net> wrote:
>> On 10/09/2012 10:32 PM, JD wrote:
>> > You need to contact HP and they will provide you
>> > with the recovery windows DVD. I have run into a similar problem.
>> > After fixing your windows, your Linux Grub will be
>> > overwritten, and windows booter will be in place.

If the install is otherwise fine except for the bootloader, you could
boot from a live distro, chroot into the install and run "grub-install
/dev/sda". The process in steps:

1. Boot in to live environment
2. Figure out in which partitions did you install Fedora (using
gparted, fdisk, whatever you're comfortable with).
All of the following as root, so "su" or "sudo -i" depending on your environment
3. mkdir /mnt/fedora
4. mount /dev/sdaX /mnt/fedora
(4.b mount /dev/sdaY /mnt/fedora/boot)
5 mount -t proc proc /mnt/fedora/proc
6. mount -o bind /dev /mnt/fedora/dev
7. mount -o bind /sys /mnt/fedora/sys
8. chroot /mnt/fedora /bin/bash
9. grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg (check here to find out where
you should put 2's)
10. grub-install /dev/sda
11. exit
12. umount everything and reboot

> Thanks very much! Btw, I am able to "see" the "Recovery Partition" from
> a Linux LiveCD. Can I copy these files onto an external USB in the
> usual way, but then how do I make a "Recovery disk" from this?

If the above procedure for installing grub doesn't work, you can
download legal copies of the install isos straight from a Microsoft
contractor called Digital River, instructions in this blog post:
http://blog.ringerc.id.au/2012/05/you-can-download-legal-windows-7-iso.html.
The different isos are legal and from Microsoft and will of course do
nothing without a licence key.

Daniel Landau